[SOLVED] Get process ID by part of its process name at Sigar

Get process ID by part of its process name at Sigar

I'm using Sigar library to get the process ID and monitor it.

I have a process which can change of name depending on the version of the application which runs that process. For example:

Is there a way using Sigar to get the process Id by specifing something like myProcess% ?

Right now I'm using this:

ProcessFinder find = new ProcessFinder(this.sigar);
long[] pids = find.find("Exe.Name.ct=" + this.processName);

I've been trying to use regular expresions by using the PTQL (Process Table Query Language) syntax without success:

//getting the process with name "Photoshop.exe" (not working currently)
long[] pids = find.find("Exe.Name.re=^Photo(.)*.exe$);

Solution

Exe.Name returns the path to the running process, not just the name of the process.

Therefore your regular expression should look like this:

long[] pids = this.find.find("Exe.Name.re=^.*\\\\Photo(.)*.exe$");